Biographies

• Elhum Shakerifar

  Elhum Shakerifar is a writer and translator, currently translating Parinaz Fahimi's poetry and part of the 24/25 Southbank New Poets cohort. Elhum is also a BAFTA-nominated producer, most recently Executive Producer of Clear Night, Helene Kazan’s multi-sensory investigative homage to Asmahan for the 2025 Sharjah Biennial. She has programmed for London Film Festival (2014-21), Shubbak – festival of contemporary Arab culture (2015-19), Barbican (Poetry in Motion: Contemporary Iranian Cinema, 2019), BFI (Drama & Desire, the films of Youssef Chahine, 2023) and is on the board of the Palestine Film Institute, co-curating the Palestine Film Platform. Elhum runs the London-based company Hakawati (‘storyteller’ in Arabic) @TheHakawatis.

  
  

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• Subversive Film

  Subversive Film is a cinema research and production collective that aims to cast new light upon historical works related to Palestine and the region, to engender support for film preservation, and to investigate archival practices. Their long-term and ongoing projects explore this cine-historic field including digitally reissuing previously overlooked films, curating rare film screening cycles, subtitling rediscovered films, producing publications, and devising other forms of interventions. Formed in 2011, Subversive Film is based between Brussels and Ramallah. 

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• La Voix des sans papiers

  La Voix des sans papiers (VSP) is a collective of self-organized undocumented people in Brussels. Founded in 2014, the collective organizes political occupations and is connected with other collectives in Brussels, Liège, Verviers, and Mons. These occupations serve as spaces for political struggle and survival, with the central demand being the regularization of all undocumented people. Through their fight for rights, VSP builds bridges with various forms of support: associations, collectives, unions, and supportive citizens. 

  Over the past ten years, filmmakers Mieriën Coppens and Elie Maissin have created a collection of short films with VSP that are part of a growing series. These documentaries stand alone but collectively testify to a dedicated vision and a meticulous, socially engaged working method.

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• Marinho de Pina

  Marinho de Pina has been collaborating with Filipa César, Sana na N’Hada, and Suleimane Biai  since 2017 on Mediateca Abotcha in Guinea-Bissau (mediateca-onshore.org), a program for the cultural creation of dreams and utopias with the local community. Together, they manage, produce, curate, communicate, and animate cultural activities, facilitating a collective exploration of the militant cinema practices of the African Liberation Movement in Guinea-Bissau and their enduring potential. He co-directed the feature-length essay film Resonance Spiral with Filipa César, which premiered at Berlinale Forum in 2024. As a research assistant at DIN MIA’CET-ISCTE, the Centre for Studies on Socioeconomic Change and Territory, he is currently pursuing a PhD on sacred spaces in Bissau. Marinho is a consummate wordsmith and storyteller, skilled across various formats. He is unwavering in his belief that doubts are preferable to rigid certainties. A transdisciplinary artist, he is also a performer, poet, musician, and writer—even on weekends and holidays.

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• Marwa Arsanios

  Marwa Arsanios addresses structural questions using different devices, forms and strategies. From investigating the conflict-driven transformation of architecture to exploring artist-run spaces and temporary conventions between feminist communes and cooperatives, her practice aims to make space within − and without − existing art structures to experiment with different kinds of politics. She frequently uses the medium (and space) of film to connect struggles as if they were images. In her ongoing film series Who is Afraid of Ideology (since 2017), she weaves an intersectional path through the resistance of women on the frontline in places such as Northern Syria and Colombia to claim the unmediated right to land and water. With these works, Arsanios has adopted a new materialist perspective on these issues, focusing on feminist movements and historic land struggles. In this approach, she explores questions of property, law, economy, and ecology while looking at specific plots of lands and the people who work on them.

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• Elettra Bisogno

  Elettra Bisogno studied graphic design in Italy before turning to the moving image as she arrived in Brussels. Inspired by many cinematic languages and the beauty and injustices of the world, she emerges as documentary filmmaker with two shortfilms (Ultima Cassa and Old Child). Her latest work is The Roller, the Life, the Fight an award winning feature documentary that premiered at Cinema du Réel in 2024. She lives, draws inspiration and works in various contexts in Brussels.

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• Bojana Cvejić

  Bojana Cvejić is author of several books, notably Choreographing Problems (2015) and Toward a Transindividual Self (co-written with Ana Vujanović 2022). As a practicing dramaturg, performer or director, she has co-created many performances that have extensively toured internationally. Bojana has been active in the self-organization of two collective platforms for experimental artistic production, critical theory and self-education in Europe and former Yugoslavia (Performing Arts Forum, Saint-Erme since 2005; TkH/Walking Theory 2001-17), which have informed her research in social choreography, transindividuality, and anti-fascist political solidarity. Since 2017, she is Professor at Oslo National Academy of Arts.

  
  

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• Forum Lenteng

  Forum Lenteng is an egalitarian non-profit organization based in Jakarta, dedicated to developing social and cultural studies. Founded in 2003 by communication students, artists, researchers, and cultural observers, the forum focuses on expanding its members' knowledge of media and art through production, documentation, research, and open distribution. This knowledge serves as a foundation for community discussions on social issues through the lens of art and media. Over more than a decade, Forum Lenteng has grown significantly, developing numerous programs in collaboration with various institutions and communities across Indonesia and internationally. As a dynamic collective, Forum Lenteng addresses film and moving images as processes of collective research, creation, and viewing. They facilitate workshops, film screenings (both open and closed sessions), writing initiatives, and other activities to explore image-making as a form of social practice.

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• Lara Khaldi

  Lara Khaldi is a cultural worker based between Jerusalem, Palestine and Amsterdam, Netherlands. She is an alumna of the de Appel curatorial programme, Amsterdam, and the European Graduate School, Switzerland. She has collaborated often with Al Ma’mal Art Foundation in Jerusalem, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah and Sharjah Art Foundation. She is a co-founding member of School of Intrusions and Question of Funding collectives. She taught at and was the head of the Media Studies Program at Bard Al Quds, Jerusalem 2017-2020. She was a member of the curatorial team of documenta fifteen. Lara has been artistic director of de Appel, Amsterdam since January 2023.

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• Massimiliano Mollona

  Massimiliano Mollona is an anthropologist and filmmaker. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Brazil and England, around themes of class, work, post-capitalism and decoloniality through a participatory methodology that combines anthropological analysis and artistic interventions. Mollona has taught Anthropology of Art and Political Anthropology at Goldsmiths, London and currently teaches at the Department of the Arts (DAR) at the University of Bologna. He was director of the Athens Biennial OMONIA; co-director of the Bergen Assembly and is founding member of the Institute of Radical Imagination (IRI).

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